On 24-06-12 19:47, Thomas Beale wrote: > I would say there is no real 'market' for tools these days; everyone > expects these kinds of tools for free.
A free market is also a market, it serves a future vision to sell the OpenEHR-architecture, which is much harder if there is no adequate tooling. A platform like OpenEHR cannot live with only one vendor. So every vendor has advantage to create public available tooling. Compare it with free Java, MySQL or free OpenOffice, Sun made money with it, and now Oracle, IBM make money with it, and many other service-vendors. There is a money-making vision behind it. I think therefore, that there must be a well maintained archetype-editor, best is Open Source, so others can easier port it to different platforms and don't need to reinvent the wheel. I would write it as a Eclipse-application if I would have time to do it. There is a lot of useful sourcecode available, the LiU archetype-editor, the OCEAN archetype-editor (for code-concepts) and the java-libraries from Rong. But I am too busy to really finish such a job. I, on my own, am a too small company. ;-) It would better be a university-job. Maybe later this year I do it as something to do for an hour a day beside my work for living. Bert
